George Coggeshall, History of the American privateers, and letters of marquee, during our war with England in the years 1812, ’13 and ’14. Interspersed with several naval battles between American and British ships of war. (New York, 1856)

For general maritime matters this is an excellent site.www.maritimearchives.co.uk
On the British side there is Andrew Lambert, The Challenge: America, Britain and the War of 1812 (London: Faber and Faber, 2012 - this, in my view, the definitive work on the subject.

One of the first to explore the circumstances of privateering was Dr Eric Graham, his Seawolves: Pirates and the Scots (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2005) gives an excellent view of the diverse characters involved, and their subsequent political and legal problems.

David J. Starkey British Privateering Enterprise in the Eighteenth century (UK: University of Exeter Press, 1990) - see Prize Law for an extract this work.

The most detailed account of the Royal Navy in this war is the contemporary account by William James